backwoodsmen
Remote forest dwellers
Backwoodsmen are people who live in remote, heavily forested, or undeveloped rural areas—the backwoods.
The term suggests rugged self-sufficiency and distance from urban civilization: The backwoodsmen carved out homesteads in the wilderness.
It can carry connotations of unsophistication or lack of refinement, though sometimes admiringly so.
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- trappersThose who snare wildlife
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
wilderness · bushcraft · log cabins · self-reliance · hunting · foraging · subsistence · isolation
Rural mountain people
- yokelsNaive rural people
- hicksUnsophisticated country people
- bumpkinsUnsophisticated country people
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
provincial · remote · isolated · simple living · off-grid · countrified · hollers · Appalachian
Elected law-making officials
- House of LordsBritain's senior parliamentary body
- conservativeCautious about altering customs
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
aristocracy · peerage · constitutional · backbenchers · obstruction · old guard · reactionary · establishment
pioneers
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- trappersThose who snare wildlife
frontiersmen · wilderness · bushcraft · log cabins · self-reliance · hunting · foraging · subsistence · isolation · rugged
hillbillies
Rural mountain people
unsophisticated · provincial · remote · isolated · simple living · off-grid · countrified · hollers · Appalachian · outback
legislators
Elected law-making officials
- House of LordsBritain's senior parliamentary body
- conservativeCautious about altering customs
- traditionalistAdherent to established customs
landed gentry · aristocracy · peerage · constitutional · backbenchers · obstruction · old guard · reactionary · establishment · privilege
backwoodsmenurbanites
Metropolitan area residents
city dwellers · metropolitans · city slickers · cosmopolitans · townspeople
backwoodsmensophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
cosmopolitans · intellectuals · highbrows · men of the world · socialites
backwoodsmenmodernists
Advocates of contemporary approaches
jet-setters · progressives · technophiles · futurists · early adopters